April 6, 2003

Fellow Rotarians,

Our next
meeting on April 8th will be Rotary Scholar’s Day with Mark Baer as
the speaker. He was a Rotary Scholar at the London School of Economics in 1995
and after his graduation he is having a successful business career.
You can read more about Scholar’s
Day and Mark Baer in the latest Bulletin on our website at

New York Rotarian Erik Enroth wrote a very interesting Reporter of
the Week in the Bulletin. Erik’s classification is International Investments
Sweden. He joined our legendary Rotary Club in 2002. Erik and I were both born
in Sweden and we are planning a Sweden Day at our club with a target date this
fall. I will keep you informed about it as it gets closer.

The Bulletin has a write-up about our new member George King III.
Maybe we should call him King George III. All jokes aside, you will find the
information about George impressive. Welcome to the fellowship and camaraderie
of our club!

Our Board of Directors has approved Vito Rago and Irvin Kishner as
new members. You can read more about them in this week’s Bulletin.

The Bulletin reminds us about the upcoming Rotary Jazz Cocktail
Party at the Cornell Club on April 28th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
David Dingle and Silvio Amori are organizing this event.

The Bulletin
also tells us about the Rotary Leadership Institute on April 12th all day.
Incoming club officers should attend as well as club directors and committee
chairs. Registration should be sent to John Alfano. There is a $60 per student
fee.

I recently received the following message from District Governor
Bob Benson:

GREAT NEWS!!!!

Rotary International called yesterday with the
news that our grant has been approved. This means that in just a few days
almost $90,000 will be available to begin the process of providing hundreds of
school children in Africa with a decent place to learn. My heartfelt thanks
goes out to all of you who contributed to this project. Education is the key to
the future, and you will have been part of its enhancement in that section of
the world.

Bob Benson

District Governor

The money is for our District School Project to improve schools in
Rotary District 9250, which includes South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and
Swaziland. We have our Group Study Exchange Project with the same district.
While the GSE Project with District 9250 will complete this year, the School
Project will continue for many years. The Rotarian in charge is Past District
Governor Chuck Katze. Chuck and I have lately been speaking together at a
number of Rotary Clubs in the District to promote the partnership with District
9250. Chuck speaks about the School Project and I speak about the Group Study
Exchange. If you would like Chuck and me to speak at your Rotary Club (in
District 7230), you can either contact Chuck at telephone number (914) 633-3790
or me at telephone number (212) 675-8282.

Don’t forget to reserve your table for our next
meeting. You can reserve via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net, or call Andreas or Ana at
212-633-1311. You can also fax in the RSVP form, which you can download at

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I want to thank our Executive Director
Andreas Runggatscher and his Executive Assistant Ana Rivas for working so hard
every week creating and mailing the Weekly Bulletin. In addition to mailing it
out to our members, they also send me the electronic Bulletin so I can upload
it on our website. They are also working very hard with the administration of
the World Trade Center - Disaster Relief
Fund.

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